Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The diesel locomotive came to a halt a matter of feet from the structure ; eight people were fined £2,500 and spent a week in prison . |
| 32 | But , incredibly , it stayed on the line and came to a halt a mile further on , dragging the mangled seats beneath the engine . |
| 33 | Altos systems are now distributed by Leeds-based Computer Services Technology Ltd and Metrologie UK : Altos ' relationship with Microvitec 's Logitek plc came to an end a few months ago . |
| 34 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 35 | As 1745 , a year of defeat and near disaster , came to an end the government in London was far more concerned about the enemy presence just across the Channel than the more distant one beyond the Scottish border . |
| 36 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 37 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 38 | ‘ Formally , the Tyrrell Society came to an end the day of Ramsey 's funeral . |
| 39 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 40 | Harry , who only joined as a boarder a week ago , began his day opening cards and presents . |
| 41 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 42 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 43 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |
| 44 | In London , the National Deaf Club boasted as a member a Henry John Jacobs , who was a barrister of the Inner Temple . |
| 45 | When Mr Lavender turned into an alley the pair followed him , the Old Bailey jury was told . |
| 46 | And then he did another one where at work he paid in a pound a week or two pound and at the end of the year , they kept the money like in the bank . |
| 47 | As abruptly as it had started , the storm stopped and the sun shone from a sky the colour of a Ceylon sapphire . |
| 48 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 49 | You got into a fight the other night . |
| 50 | As the storm raged about them , the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort . |
| 51 | Rob asked with a grimace the following day . |
| 52 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 53 | When she walked into a village the Africans would often clap their hands in a reverential way . |
| 54 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 55 | He thus became in a sense a monarch , though one whose powers were strictly limited and often jealously scrutinized by the provincial estates . |
| 56 | Blue eyes twinkled in a face the colour of burned chalk . |
| 57 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 58 | Indeed as Dottrens noticed in his world survey of primary curriculum in 1962 there seems to be a bit more of everything included in a curriculum every time it is revised — a trend which is likely to be reinforced whenever syllabuses are designed by committees rather than individuals . |
| 59 | We included in an appendix a selection of teaching strategies which provide ‘ ways into texts ’ of whatever genre , period or level of difficulty . |
| 60 | He waited till they slowed to a stop a few feet away and a voice said , ‘ Joe ? |